What is your favourite book?

[Lumathix]

Altered Carbon and Broken Angels by .Richard K. Morgan.
Hard Sci-Fi. Really cool books by a not-so-well-known author.
I believe he will be though.

 

[zener]

I like fiction but have to admit I enjoy nonfiction. I am currently reading Peter the Great by Robert Massie. Never realized how incredible he was. The story of the German family, the Arms of Krupps by Manchester. 100 Years of Solitude by Garcia is also incredible reading.
And if you can get the Chinese sagas by Louis Cha, The Legendary Couple, Dragon and others, it is the best. My only regret is not being able to read Chinese. This literature is overlooked by Americans but hopefully will be discovered and become appreciated by many Westerners. I think that after reading so much Western European literature, Louis Cha is fresh and honest writing. It does not dwell on bad guy/gal, good guy/gal but looks honestly at people in general and says we all have bad and good therefore, yin-yang is indeed more of a sensible explanation than the dualistic thinking that pervades Western lit. IMHO

 

[marcello]

Alive - by some guy
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Edit: Oh yeah, Moneyball - Michael Lewis

 

[ZeroEffect]

Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, the first book is Quicksilver

Excellent stuff!!

An earlier work by him Cryptonomicon is just as good.

 

[slunk]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Toole

 

[HermDogg]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
atlas shrugged / the fountainhead
count of monte cristo

Burn. In a fire. Preferably hot.

 

[nageov3t]

another vote for Atlas Shrugged.

but I'm finding that the older I get, the more I like War and Peace. I hated it the first time I read it, but now it's definitely in my top 5.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (as if you couldn't tell from my name)

Why? It's just... pure hilarity.

another vote for it, get the Ultimate one (which is probably all you could find anyway...but if you see different ones...get the ultimate one!)

great book, my wife got it for me last christmas